Crime SuspenStories #2

In "Dead-Ringer," a desperate thief stumbles upon a shocking twist: a wealthy man at a local sanitarium suffers from amnesia and bears an uncanny resemblance to him. With a plan to swap lives and vanish into luxury, he sets his sights on the sanitarium—only to find that the truth is far more dangerous than he imagined.

In "The Corpse in the Crematorium," a man prone to cataleptic episodes is mistakenly taken to a crematorium just as his fiancée frantically searches for him. With time running out, her desperate search is met with dread—until a chilling detail gives him a chance to survive: beads of sweat forming on his brow before the furnace.

In "Contract for Death," a desperate man’s attempt to end his life takes a shocking turn when a doctor offers him $5,000 to delay his suicide for one month—just long enough to see what happens when a life is bought and sold. The deal is sealed with a signature, and the man begins to live wildly, only to find himself tangled in new emotions and a growing unease as the doctor’s true intentions begin to surface.